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Social Security Website Crashes as DOGE-Linked Disruption at the Agency Continues
Elon Musk's organization has been monkeying with America's retirement system, with no positive results so far.
At a political event in Wisconsin this week (where the billionaire is attempting to buy the Supreme Court election), Musk claimed: “One interesting statistic was that 40 percent of the calls into Social Security were fraudulent, meaning that it was someone trying to get a Social Security payment that was going to a senior instead to go to a fraud ring,” a claim that the New York Times has noted has no basis in reality and may in fact be a misunderstanding (or a purposeful skewing) of a different statistic. The announced closure of the White Plains office is actually quite a big deal, as it is one of the largest in New York state, and is the only one in the county of Westchester (which has a population of approximately a million people). Social security activists have said that the changes ushered in under DOGE’s watch will lead to deaths, and former federal officials have been highly critical of the government’s new approach to the nearly 100-year-old program.
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